Critics of this, my weekly Malaysiakini column, regularly accuse me of boring them to death by repeatedly focusing on the problems of Malaysia’s misgovernment by the rotten Umno/BN regime instead of proposing solutions.

But obviously these carpers haven’t been boring themselves by reading my repetitive rubbish for many of the almost 10 years I’ve been boring myself witless by suggesting ways of getting rid of this gang of crooks.

By suggesting everything from perfectly obvious ways like registering to vote in elections, as last time I checked about a third of eligible Malaysian adults had still not bothered to do, and then like actually turning up to vote when registered, as another large proportion of citizens routinely fail to do.

Then there was the other pretty obvious ploy that I proposed just a couple of weeks ago, which was for Malaysians who object to the fact that the regime’s members and cronies have stolen countless billions of ringgit from the people to get together to bring a class-action suit against them, both collectively and individually, for restitution of all this loot.

But in any case, who am I, a mere interfering foreigner, to suggest ways of getting rid of the curse of Umno/BN when millions of apparently intelligent Malaysians haven’t managed to come up with one in all the decades they have had to think about it?

A few afternoon walks by a tiny minority of concerned citizens, as in the Bersih protests, haven’t proven particularly revolutionary in either their concept or effectiveness.

And there appears to be precious little even part-time public support for the relatively tiny band of true patriots who devote their entire lives to opposing the poisonous perennially-ruling regime.

In fact, about all that most people seem to manage when it comes to getting rid of these scum that forever infest an otherwise beautiful and blessed Malaysia is a lot of coffeeshop-style complaining.

Plus, of course, accusing those of us who do give enough of a damn to at least speak up for Malaysia of being repetitive and boring.

At the risk, then, of being even more repetitive and boring than ever, here, for the benefit of all those with not an idea in their heads about how to actually do something for Malaysia is a suggestion that I’ve made so many times before that it is almost terminally tedious to have to mention again - at least do something about taking God back from Umno/BN.

This to me would seem to be the bounden duty of every Malaysian who claims to be a pious adherent of any of the nation’s religions, but particularly Islam, which has been comprehensively hijacked if not outright stolen by the criminal regime.

That any allegedly devout Muslim can tolerate the perfectly evident fact that Umno/BN has co-opted and thus perverted the faith in an attempt to draw a cloak of piety over its perfidy is absolutely preposterous.

Tragic reality

And even more so is the tragic reality that millions of people who consider themselves sincerely ‘religious’ can not only tolerate but actually vote for and otherwise support this coterie of liars, thieves and killers.

But still there is no word of public protest, let alone any sign of action by Malaysians of the Muslim or indeed any other religion against such outrages as the recent claim by Home Minister and Deputy Crime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi ( photo ) that he was ‘fated by Allah’ to achieve high office.

Nor has there been any noticeable protest by people of any, let alone all religions, against Zahid Hamidi’s even more recent attempt to claim God for his and the regime’s own with his diatribe against critics and opponents of Umno/BN.

Demonising such Malaysians as a ‘slanderous, noisy minority’ that would ‘end up in hell’ , he raved that ‘God created heaven and hell, but the residents in hell are more than in heaven, because they rushed to enter hell.’

Who, I wonder, does this political thug, who not long ago was writing to the FBI on behalf of an alleged criminal, and before that allegedly assaulted one of his daughter’s suitors, think he is to be making such pronouncements on behalf of the accursed Umno/BN regime?

And what do Malaysians who faithfully follow Islam, not to mention other faiths, imagine they are doing by failing to openly oppose such blatant blasphemy?

Doesn’t it occur to all those people who so glibly repeat the ‘God bless Malaysia’ mantra at every opportunity that it is high time that Malaysians returned the favour and did something to bless God by getting rid of the regime that routinely tries to hide its criminality behind His name?

At the risk of being boringly repetitive once more, it’s high time, indeed well and truly past time, that even if they are too gormless or gutless to do anything else for the good of the country they claim to love, Malaysians with pretensions to godliness at least had the courage to reclaim the Almighty from the greedy, grubby clutches of the God-forsaken Umno/BN regime.

DEAN JOHNS, after many years in Asia, currently lives with his Malaysian-born wife and daughter in Sydney, where he coaches and mentors writers and authors and practises as a writing therapist. Published books of his columns for Malaysiakini include ‘Mad about Malaysia', ‘Even Madder about Malaysia', ‘Missing Malaysia', ‘1Malaysia.con’ and ‘Malaysia Mania’.